PRIVATE PRACTICE

Partners


City moves begin with litigator Philip Parish, who joins Lovells from Linklaters.


Stephenson Harwood recruits funds and financial services specialist Charlotte Hill to its corporate group from CMS Cameron McKenna.


Collyer-Bristow appoints two new partners: Jack Czyzowski joins the property team from Orchard and IP specialist Patrick Wheeler moves from McGrigors’ London office.


US firm Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe appoints finance partner Martin Bartlam to succeed Adrian Harris as leader of its London office.


Employment specialist Mark Landon joins Weightmans’ London office; he was formerly in-house at the Royal Mail Group.


Four new partners for Hextalls: Alex Padfield (travel and leisure), Ian Chappell (property litigation) and Matthew Hennessy-Gibbs (dispute resolution) are promoted, while former Marshall Ross & Prevezer partner Nazar Sheikh joins the insolvency team.


Kennedys appoints insurance specialist Jonathan Eastlake from Plexus Law.


Kaim Todner promotes Hulusi Ali, head of its criminal law branch in north London to partner.


Surrey firm Mundays appoints Mark Andrew in its corporate department; he moves from the London office of US firm Bingham McCutchen.


Bournemouth firm Harold G Walker & Co promotes residential conveyancer Nicola Lowe in its Wimborne branch.


In Cornwall, former Hancock Caffin partners Graham Groves and Erika Hewett have launched a new firm, Hewett Groves, after taking over Hancock Caffin’s Helston practice.


Neil Upton joins DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary in Birmingham as head of energy and water for Europe, the Middle East and Africa from US firm White & Case.


Moving north, the Leeds office of Keeble Hawson appoints Paul Johnson to head its corporate and business services department; he moves from Eversheds’ local office.


Cobbetts boosts its corporate team in Manchester with the appointment of former Pinsent Masons’ partner Sean Fitzgerald.




Associates / Assistants


Senior corporate finance and private equity associate Alex Worner joins Osborne Clarke’s City office from McGrigors’ London office.


Remi Aiyela joins Laytons’ Guildford office to launch a wills and succession planning service; she moves from north London firm Sherman Phillips.


Samantha Pang joins the conveyancing team in the Bradley Stoke office of Bristol firm Wards from Cale Palmer in Clifton.


In Wales, Leo Abse & Cohen strengthens its commercial department by appointing Paul Bromhead from Thomas Graham in Cardiff and Mick Tinning from Cardiff firm Gimblett Williams.


Cambridge firm Taylor Vinters recruits two to its corporate group: Adam Bradley from London firm Lawrence Graham and Bruce James from Bishop’s Stortford firm Pellys.


In the midlands, personal injury assistant Stephen Gowland joins Worcestershire firm Everatt & Co’s disease unit from Davies Arnold Cooper in London.


To the north-west, where Manchester firm Berg Legal promotes three to associate: Elliot Lister in the commercial litigation team, Stephen Daniels in the commercial property team and Keith Kennedy in the corporate team.


Three assistants for York firm Langleys: Sam Greatorex (corporate commercial) and Emma Cahill (insurance) join on qualification with the firm, while Robert Ward joins the criminal law team from MBM in Selby.


Hull firm Andrew M Jackson appoints James Houston as an associate in its commercial property team from local firm Gosschalks.


Employment associate David Gibson moves to Crutes in Newcastle from local firm Dickinson Dees.


Mergers and acquisitions specialist Anthony Evans moves to Newcastle firm Sintons from the Leeds office of Addleshaw Goddard.



BAR & BENCH


Solicitor Claire Gilham is appointed a district judge on the Wales and Chester circuit.


Barrister Mark Pelling QC is appointed a specialist chancery circuit judge on the northern circuit.


Barrister Joanne Crossley joins the family department at York firm Langleys; she leaves 37 Park Square Chambers in Leeds.